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A novel functional cross-interaction between opioid and pheromone signaling may be involved in stress avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Scientific reports - 5 May 2020
Park Jun Young, Cheong Mi Cheong, Cho Jin-Young, Koo Hyeon-Sook, Paik Young-Ki
Abstract excerpt
Upon sensing starvation stress, Caenorhabditis elegans larvae (L2d) elicit two seemingly opposing behaviors to escape from the stressful condition: food-seeking roaming mediated by the opioid peptide NLP-24 and dauer formation mediated by pheromones. Because opioid and pheromone signals both originate in ASI chemosensory neurons, we hypothesized that they might act sequentially or competitively to avoid...
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